The Lott IMPACT Trophy honors college football’s best in character and performance. The award is unique because it represents the first college football award to give equal weight to personal character as well as athletic performance from a defensive college player and is the first national college football award based on the West Coast.
The IMPACT award is awarded annually to individuals who demonstrate excellence in the field of athletics and recognizes college football’s Defensive Player of the Year who best exemplifies the IMPACT acronym: Integrity, Maturity, Performance, Academics, Community and Tenacity.
--Watch list announcements become a kind of "who's who" in college football. Hundreds of players make them, although Thibodeaux truly is an exceptional football player.
The best part about watch list season is that it means football is almost here. Just 79 days until the Ducks tee it up against Fresno State.
